Well, I am not sure but I think I've been insulted! My friend I think you're going to have to start your own such list. I mean, after all, look who you're asking for advice and direction. Very same people you think are fools adios my friend good luck bye
Sent from my IPhone > On Sep 15, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Yuma Decaux <[email protected]> wrote: > > Considering the kind of polemics this list is going through, and that I > haven’t seen one topic of which I am not aware of being an older mac os/ios > user, I think it is time to shut my subscription from this list and look for > a more adapted list which tries to advance the ideas of technology, and voice > over in particular. May someone point me to a list which basically does not > discuss so much about how to click this icon or make this boot drive work > with that OS but rather a more creative output of ideas, developer topics and > other subjecst that may appeal more to computer scientists, programmers and > other creative heads? I know of some list that goes in this line, but I am > looking for a place where everyone, or a large majority is a blind apple > developer, programmer or tech industrial who uses xcode or can enter a more > intellectually stimulating line of topics to help me understand better what > blind/visually impaired users are looking for in apps, technologies such as > A.I, machine learning as applied to apps or even conceptual discussions for > sonificating apps for games and interactive media? Or does such a list exist? > > In any case, I hope this list will clean up a bit as now it has become a > large boudoir of everyone throwing in their opinion on every topic, which has > become very tedious and superfluous at this point. I am not pointing fingers > at anyone in particular, but hope that as a group, this list will start > putting more emphasis on what matters. Action is much more respectable than > politics and competing to have the most score in giving technical advice or > saying what you think. I have noticed one very important difference between > sighted and visually impaired users. The former are inundated with visual > advertising and therefore know how to filter out the superfluous. As a blind > programmer, I live in a world almost devoid of any ads save youtube, and > therefore am much aware of the superfluous. So I preffer filtering it out > rather than sticking to some strange illusion of grandeur over being in some > list where everyone is cackering over everything. In some ways, this is > counter productive as it is hours and hours of writing back and forth, every > day. Think about it. It has no utility and no intrinsic value. > > But people get addicted to it, just like anything else in the world. I’d > rather get addicted to producing music, apps, creating technologies and being > outdoors camping, going to festivals, socialising, dining and doing sports > than being addicted to responding to tech help requests. > > In any case, take care of yourselves everyone. > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
